“They’d have passed her along from one driver to another. It would’ve been a Puppy Express,” Skip joked .

“那他们可得一个骑手一个骑手地接力，那可就成了小狗快运了，”斯基普开玩笑地说道。

Not too long ago contractors joked about putting up a building roof first. For a number of years now this has actually become a respectable method of construction.

不久前承包人员还把建房先建房盖当作笑话。近年来，这确实已成为一种值得重视的施工方法。

She joked him a bit about a nice young lady

她拿一位漂亮女子跟他开玩笑。

The last time Old Wang saw him, Old Wang joked that he, the matchmaker, had completely lost face.Why had neither of the fated romances come out successfully?

老汪一天碰见他，笑说媒人的面子扫地了，怎么两个姻缘全没有撮合成就。

Jenna and Barbara Bush, US president’s 22-year-old twin daughters, joked about their days as "young and irresponsible" party girls and said they were not very political but couldn’t sit out their father’s final campaign.

美国总统布什22岁的双胞胎女儿詹纳·布什和芭芭拉·布什开玩笑称自己过着“年轻的、不负责任的”派对女孩的生活，并表示她们虽然对政治并不十分感兴趣，但是不会在父亲竞选的最后时刻袖手旁观。

The funny man joked about his accident and everyone laughed.

那个风趣的人拿自己的事故说笑，大家都笑了。

He joked with me about the thing.

他就那事与我开玩笑。

"I’m her assistant, I hand her the brushes. She doesn’t appreciate that most artists have to wait longer to have an assistant," he joked .

他开玩笑说:“我是她的助手，我给她递画笔。她不知道大多数画家需要等待更长的时间才会有助手帮忙。”

They joked about his ineptitude

他们取笑他的笨拙。

They joked about his ineptitude.

他们取笑他的笨拙。

They joked him on his baldness.

他们取笑他的秃头。

They smirked and joked whisperingly thus breaking the solemnity of the ceremony

他们傻笑着并低声开着玩笑，破坏了仪式的肃穆气氛。

He joked with me about the matter.

他拿那事同我开玩笑。

My teacher was in a good humor today and even joked with us.

我的老师今天心情好,甚至还跟我们开玩笑。

The president, who won re-election on November 2 after a tight race against Democrat John Kerry, joked that biscuits and his running-mate, "Gravy," had run "neck-and-neck" against a rival ticket of "Patience" and "Fortitude."

在经历了与民主党候选人约翰·克里的激烈角逐后，总统布什于11月2日成功连任。他拿“饼干”和他的竞选伙伴“肉汤”开玩笑说:“他们曾经和既有‘耐心’又‘坚忍不拔’的竞争对手展开激烈角逐。”

Jenna joked that their appearance provided an opportunity for "payback time" on live television.

詹纳开玩笑说，对于她们在电视直播上的露面，观众可能会索要“补偿时间”。

Jenna joked that their appearance provided an opportunity for "payback time" on live television. Barbara confided that her parents’ favorite term of endearment is "Bushie."

詹纳开玩笑说，对于她们在电视直播上的露面，观众可能会索要“补偿时间”。芭芭拉透露她父母最钟爱的蜜语是bushie。

The man seemed to be in animal spirits and joked incessantly.

这个人似乎精神很好，他不停地说着笑话。

It is not a subject to be joked upon.

这个问题可不是开玩笑的。

||1: “I liked them. I joked with them. I sympathised with them,” writes Ms Steavenson. “But not one ever looked me straight in the eye and admitted responsibility for the crimes of the government which they had served.” ||2: Even after the depredations of Saddam Hussein, many of those Ms Steavenson talked to still hankered after someone like him. ||3: Iraqis, says one, are “an unruly mass of shirugi—slang for thick-headed Marsh Arabs—who need the rule of the rod, a strongman, to control them.” ||4: Judging by this remorselessly bleak account of Iraq’s moral collapse, one cannot but feel squeamish about Iraq’s future, under any regime.

||1:“我喜欢他们，和他们一起开玩笑，我同情他们，”史蒂文森写道，“但是没有一个人直视过我的眼睛，承认他们对自己曾经效忠的政府所犯下的罪行负有责任。”||2:尽管受尽萨达姆的蹂躏，接受史蒂文森访谈的许多人依然渴望以后还能有像他那样的人出现。||3:有一个人说，伊拉克人是“一群不守规矩的shirugi（俚语，指愚笨的沼地阿拉伯人），需要棒压统治，需要一名强势之人来管住他们。”||4:伊拉克的道德崩溃竟然会有一个如此无情、黯淡的注脚，我们不禁要为伊拉克的未来捏一把汗了，不管它是怎样的政体。

||1: “Mark twain had it backwards,” Steve Schneider joked , in a lecture he gave to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1972. ||2: “Nowadays, everyone is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.” ||3: The lecture was on the topic that Mr Schneider, then 27, had been working on for two years and would work on for another 38: what were humans doing to the climate?

||1:1972年，史蒂夫施奈德在美国科学促进会（AAAS）演讲时开玩笑地说“马克吐温把话说反了！”||2:“而今，每个人时时都影响着气候，但没有人时时都把气候挂在嘴边”||3:发表此演讲时，施奈德先生仅27岁，已经工作了两年并将余下的38年为这一话题而探索：人类正对气候造成了什么影响？

||1: A FEW months after Léo Apotheker, the former boss of SAP, a German software firm, took over as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (HP), he joked that he had learned to say "awesome" like a Californian following his move from Europe to Palo Alto. ||2: Unfortunately for Mr Apotheker, that is not an adjective that many of HP’s investors and board members would apply to his leadership. ||3: Rightly or wrongly, they have become disillusioned with him. ||4: As The Economist went to press, speculation was swirling that he would soon be ousted as chief executive, less than a year after his arrival.

||1:前德国软件公司SAP老板，李艾科.阿波台克在接任惠普首席执行官几个月后开玩笑说,他从德国来到帕洛阿尔托后,已经学会像加利福尼佬那样说"牛X"了。||2: 可不幸的是，对于阿波台克来说, 许多惠普的投资人和董事会成员没能适应他的领导,也不会用这词儿形容他上台以来所取得的成绩。 ||3:错也好，对也好，他们已经对阿波台克先生失望了。||4:在本期《经济学家》出版之际，阿波台克即将被赶下首席运营官宝座的猜测已甚嚣尘上。而这据他上任的时间还不到一年。

STARBUCKS once seemed so unstoppable that the Onion, a satirical paper, joked about a new Starbucks opening in the restroom of an existing Starbucks.

星巴克曾经势不可挡，以至于以嘲讽著称的onion报开玩笑称星巴克的新店会开在老店的厕所内。

In a discussion panel on whether the industry’s latest boom will last, a prominent investor, Oleg Nodelman, joked that he still had suitcases of cash for any firm that wanted it.

在一个关于此次生物科技产业的热潮是否会延续的小组讨论中，知名投资人奥列格?诺德曼开玩笑说：如果还有哪家公司需要资金，我这还有几皮箱现钞可以供应。

"I may need a reference guide to this case, " he joked .

“对于这一案件，我也需要参考书。”他调侃说道。

"Like the end of Die Hard, " he joked . "Just walking away from an exploding helicopter . "

“就像《虎胆龙威》的结尾，”他开玩笑说。“只是从一个爆炸的直升飞机旁走开。”

"Maybe they were underground, " joked an Umma official.

“没准儿他们是从地底下冒出来的”，一位乌玛官员开玩笑道。

"Maybe it will help you get a girl, " joked Spec. Tyler Meier, 20, of Ottumwa, Iowa.

“没准这车能帮你追到女孩，”来自奥塔姆瓦的泰勒开玩笑道。

"The humble people seek an audience with Lord Huang, " a reader from Nanjing joked on the Tencent news portal.

“谦逊的民众寻求觐见黄大人”南京的一位读者在腾讯新闻门户上调侃到。

"They’re supernaturally predisposed to be in conflict and that’s going to make Sunday dinner a little awkward, " Plec joked .

“他们超自然的特性会让她们有些冲突，这会让他们的周末晚餐有些尴尬。”Plec开玩笑的说。